Evidence: | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 7 July 1907:
'My brother sent me The Longest Journey. Don't you think it is an astonishing & irritating production? What a success he will be! For people will think it all so clever. I thought on every other page that he was really going to bring something off, but it all fades away into dim humour & the dimmer ghosts of unrealities. It might have been so magnificent & is a mere formless meandering. The fact is I don't think he knows what reality is, & as for experience the poor man does not realize that practically it does not exist. Still his mind interests me, its curious way of touching on things in the rather precise & charming way in which his hands (I remember) used to touch things vaguely.'
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jun 1907 and 7 Jul 1907 | ||||||||||
Country: | Ceylon | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Jaffna (province) | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Leonard Woolf |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 25 Nov 1880 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Colonial civil servant |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | Ceylon |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | E. M. Forster |
Title: | The Longest Journey |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 19793 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Frederic Spotts | |
Title: | Letters of Leonard Woolf | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1990 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 130 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf (London, 1990), p. 130, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19793, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
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